Covid-19: Christians, Jews and Muslims join in prayer in Jerusalem

March 26, 2020

The leaders of the three Abrahamic religions – Christians, Jews and Muslims – prayed together in Jerusalem on Thursday amid the global Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. The initiative...

Opposing church closures becomes new religious freedom cause

April 17, 2020

State and local restrictions on religious gatherings, introduced as measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, have emerged as a top religious freedom issue and prompted a...

French Muslim leader: Coronavirus is a chance for solidarity, not ‘punishment’

March 23, 2020

In France, the Grand Great Mosque of Paris and its new rector, Chems Eddine Hafiz, did not wait to set an example for the other 4,000 mosques...

CFP: Special Issue on “Islamic Ethics of Pandemics and Covid-19”

Call for Papers | Submission Deadline: July 31, 2020

Special Issue of Journal of Islamic Ethics
The articles will be dedicated to the moral questions triggered by the novel coronavirus pandemic and how they can be addressed...

CFP: Special Issue on “Marja‘iyya and Society”

Call for Papers | Submission Deadline: August 14, 2020

Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam
We encourage submissions that engage with how the marāji‘’s fatwas help shape and are shaped by Twelver Shī‘ī communities. This includes: the marāji‘’s consideration of the cultural, temporal, and spatial context in deriving legal opinions;...

Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World (Online)

15 June - 8 August 2020 | Registration Deadline: May 15, 2020

Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim world (SILMW) is a program offered by the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program at the University of Illinois. SILMW provides a...

Cinema & Islam: How Filmmaking Shapes Islam and How Islam Shapes Filmmaking

June 12, 2020 | London, UK

This one-day workshop examines the ways in which filmmakers explore Islam as a human and historical phenomenon characterized and...

“Diverse Approaches to Qur’anic Studies in the Western Academy”

NAAIMS 49th Annual Conference | September 25, 2020

Qur’anic studies in Western universities enjoys numerous research avenues: From studying Qur’anic manuscripts to the ways in which the Internet serves as a space in which Muslims...

North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS)

NAAIMS is an organization whose mission is to provide a forum for the production and dissemination of academic research on Islam and the diverse lived experience of Muslims. Its conferences, lectures, award programs,...